Install.packages(“devtools”), install.packages(“httr”), install.packages(“curl”) Use command “R” to start R in the terminal. Quite a few packages need to be installed in R: Need to install libcurl by using the terminal command: The following page will get you started installing RStudio: InstallingRStudioCentos. Look at the docment What I did to install R. I needed to use different paths than Mr. Breen used. Hadoop Environment variables need to be set. This may just be something I need to figure out.Īfter systems were set up as above, install R with: In particular, I found that I couldn’t use bridged (I wasn’t connected to the internet on the VM which caused a ton of problems!). However, I deviated somewhat from these steps. I did roughly start by following the directions in this slide presentation by Jeffrey Breen.